New To Theatres This Weekend: Cop Out, The Crazies, Defendor

Posted by on February 26th, 2010   Filed under: New Releases

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This weekend at the box office it’s a battle between Kevin Smith’s first studio comedy Cop Out and Breck Eisner’s remake of George Romero’s The Crazies. Will Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan make for a bankable combination? Are people getting sick of zombie movies? We’ll have the answers to these questions and more come Monday. Meanwhile, in limited release, we have a handful of interesting flicks including the Oscar-nominated French film A Prophet, the Woody Harrelson superhero dramedy Defendor, The Yellow Handkerchief starring Kristen Stewart, and the indie drama Toe to Toe. What will you be watching this weekend?



  • Falsk

    I saw “Cop Out” earlier this week and I don’t think it deserves the super low rating it has on Rotten Tomatoes at the moment. It’s not anything remarkable… but there are plenty of worse films out there right now.

  • xSaintx

    And are film buffs sick of people referring to Crazies as a Zombie flick?

  • Yes, we are sick of it! HAHA!

  • Matt

    Why isn’t the Crazies a zombie film? Because the infected run and use weapons? People get infected and start killing people thats pretty much zombie movie. I don’t understand these technical rules people have regarding these movies.

  • I’m doing a double feature on Sunday– “Shutter Island” & “The Crazies”.

  • PlanBFromOuterSpace

    In “The Crazies”, the people are still pretty much themselves though after they become infected. They aren’t undead like your typical zombies or mindless killing machines like your “28 Days Later” types. They’re still aware of who they are and still do things they did before. They also hold grudges and set traps. They don’t have any sort of new abilities or anything. Like the title says, they’re just crazy.

  • kurt

    Nothing is more annoying than fans of Zombie movies constantly reminding the rest of the movie-going public that for arbitrary reasons and minutae one film or another is not a ‘zombie movie’

    Get a life folks.